This Week In Wellness

This week The Wellness Guys speak to someone well known to The Wellness Couch Marcus Pearce. Not only is Marcus co-host of the ever popular 100 Not Out and Inside The Champions Mind podcasts, he is also the executive producer of The Wellness Couch and the MC at The Wellness Summit. Marcus has a passion and a wealth of knowledge about what it takes to age well. He shares with us his unique insights...

There aren’t too many people in our modern world who don’t buy any of their food in packets and it can be a minefield trying to navigate the information on the packaging. What should you look for, what should you look out for, what is the important information and what is the marketing spin? The Wellness Guys give the low down on what they look for in a food label, how they choose their foods and...

This week The Wellness Guys interview one of the co-founders of The Safe Food Foundation Scott Kinnear. Scott talks about organic farming, pesticides, GMO crops and more and the impact these farming choices are having on our crops and our health. He also discussed the upcoming case of farmer Steve Marsh who lost his organic certification and potentially his livelihood as a result of cross contamin...

As we move into yet another new year with The Wellness Guys and lots of people are looking to get a kick along with their wellness and in particular fitness goals we thought it was a good time to have a chat about fitness. The boys talk about what they do for fitness and reveal what types (and times) of fitness just don’t work for them. Tune in to get a real insight into the guys and some real mot...

This week The Wellness Guys welcome back health coach and wellness blogger Melissa Ambrosini to the show. Avid listeners might remember Mel as one of the Health Talk girls along with Jess Ainscough on an earlier episode. This week though Mel shares with us everything you need to know about living a life that is on purpose. How to find it, how to stay on track with it and how to keep evolving it th...

The New Year has come and gone and as many people do at this time of year the boys have been reflecting on what they have done up til this point in their lives and what goals and dreams they still harbour for the future. Inspired by Damo’s recent trip to the movies the boys look at all of the different aspects of their lives including career, finances, family and relationships and talk about what...

Dr Jacey Pryjma is a chiropractor with a special interest in kids health and runs the very successful Well Kids program through chiropractic practices all over the world. In this interview The Wellness Guys talk about what you need to look out for to ensure your kids health is on track and that they are meeting their milestones as well as some great tips for ho you can keep your kids healthy. So w...

Inspired by last weeks interview with Chiara-Lee The Wellness Guys have decided to revisit this important and much requested topic and delve a bit deeper into what they do to raise healthy kids. With 5 kids in total amongst the three guys and varying ages the guys give a perspective on what they do to keep their kids on track and ensure that their kids are getting the best start. So tune in for an...

There are not many 12 year old’s who could teach The Wellness Guys a thing or two about wellness but Chiara is certainly one of them. This spark of information and inspiration turns the tables on The Wellness Guys and teaches them a thing or two about how to create wellness and how to share the wellness message, especially with the younger generation. Chiara is funny, confident, knowledgeable and...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… no don’t worry the boys aren’t going to be singing any carols in this episode. Instead we are going to look ahead to the Christmas season and talk about how you can successfully navigate this sometimes stressful, sometimes tempting time of year and still maintain your health and well-being. The guys talk about everything from how to manage your relative...

This week The Wellness Guys interview CrossFit champion Amanda Allen. Amanda has a string of achievements in Cross Fit and sport in general as long as your arm and comes onto the show to share her passion and drive with you all. By now if you haven’t heard about CrossFit you must have been living under a rock. The craze is sweeping Australia and showing no signs of slowing down. Amanda shares with...

As it nears the end of yet another year The Wellness Guys have decided to look ahead. What are the current trends in health and well-being. Are they going to last? If so how are they going to change and evolve? If not what are they going to be replaced by? What do we need to be on the lookout for in the years ahead? All of these questions and much more and answered by The Wellness Guys including s...

This week The Wellness Guys interview consultant, blogger and writer Jessie Reimers. Jessie has a fantastic story to share of how she has transformed her own health through lifestyle changes and her passion for the topic is obvious. She now campaigns for changes to the dietary guidelines of the Heart Foundation and in particular for changes to the way they utilise their famous Heart Foundation tic...

The most socially accepted and widely used drug like compound found both naturally and synthetically anywhere in the world is Caffeine. For Millennia people have consumed caffeine and caffeinated beverages and foods for fun, taste and performance. This week The Wellness Guys take a closer look at what caffeine actually does to you and for Listen In The post TWG 123: The Caffeine Effect appeared fi...

This week The Wellness Guys talk about a topic that most people will go through at some stage in their lives, separation. For many people this can be a very difficult time that sometimes takes years to recover from and there is no manual for how to deal with it. The guys talk with relationships counsellor Diane Viola about why separation and divorce is seemingly becoming more and more common and w...

In the recent Wellness Guys Q & A episode the boys promised they would come back to one question about finding healthy, natural solutions to common ailments. So this week The Wellness Guys talk about a range of ailments from the common cold to gastro (Damo’s favourite of course) and what you can do to ensure you are healing naturally and healthily (as well as what you can do to prevent them). You...

This week The Wellness Guys interview Naturopath and Nutritionist Helen Padarin from Nourish-Ed. Helen is a wealth of information on all things gut and brain and in particular on the benefits of fermented foods for both. The Wellness Guys find out what fermented foods Helen recommends and uses and how to go about preparing them as well as learning just why they are so good for us. Tune in to find...

This week The Wellness Guys are answering questions from our fans. Covering everything from is Rice Bran oil healthy? to natural liver detox and from how to do health on a budget through to what to eat when you have had your gall bladder removed. Did your questions get answered? If not be sure to Listen In The post TWG 119: Your Questions Answered with The Wellness Guys appeared first on The Welln...

This week The Wellness Guys interview Nat Kringoudis, Doctor of Chinese Medicine, Acupuncturist and Natural fertility Educator. Nat shares some fantastic information about hormonal health for women. From the dangers of the pill to the devastating effects of our modern lifestyle on hormonal health to how to improve your fertility naturally this is one episode that you all (yes you guys too) will no...

This week The Wellness Guys interview Triathlete Nate Walsh. Nate is one of the top ranked triathletes in Victoria and shares with The Wellness Guys how he takes a slightly unconventional (but very Wellness Guys) approach to race preparation. Nate talks about his previous experiences with carb loading and how it was affecting his performance both in competition and in the rest of his life and how...

This week The Wellness Guys talk about the plethora of allergies that seem to be descending on our population. With Damian having just returned from a gluten free fair and discovered that not only were so many people sensitive to gluten but that many of them had an array of other sensitivities too from eggs to nuts and from fructose to fish. The guys talk about what has caused this seemingly expon...

This week The Wellness Guys interview physiotherapist and author Jason Smith. As chiropractors one of the questions we get a LOT is ‘what is the difference between chiro and physio’? In this episode the guys cover this question and much more with Jason including what role diet and positive thinking play in recovery, what are they key core exercises you could be doing to start your recovery and why...

So often when people think about health and wellbeing their focus is on how to LOSE weight. However for some people the opposite can be true. Brett shares why he has unintentionally lost a bit of weight over the last few months and talks about what he is doing now to get back on track whilst Damian gives some great insight into why the weight was lost and how to go about regaining it and Laurence...

This week The Wellness Guys interview Sally Fallon from the Weston A Price foundation. Sally is an absolute wealth of information and this wide ranging interview covers topics from raw milk to the benefits of saturated fats and from fluoride to nutrient dense foods. There is so much good information in this one that it Listen In The post TWG 113: The Wellness Guys interview Sally Fallon appeared f...

The Wellness Summit in Melbourne was a roaring success with over 600 people cramming into the Crown conference centre for a jam packed day of information and inspiration. Half way through the day The Wellness Guys joined the Up For A Chat girls live on stage to answer questions from the audience in what turned out to be a hilarious episode. Kim actually didn’t realise we were recording a live epis...